9 thoughts on “Move over, Solar Fire: Computers existed in ancient Greece”

  1. Len,

    You have indeed made this day a fortunate one for me!

    And long-form fortunate to be part of this great PW family, legos, chopsticks and all 😀

    xoxoxoxoxo!

  2. aword,
    You are my most fortunate cookie. Your erudition and generous spirit have alweays been an inspiration for me.

  3. Kudos to those so clever with Legos. Astonished and awe-filled acknowledgement to the ancient Greeks who mechanized the celestial cycles. But let us not forget that long before both (possibly before weaving and pottery, when people were wearing animal skins) sombody in China gathered fifty sticks and developed a method by which they would constitute an eight-bit computer for generating random numbers so as to augur the synchronicities of our existence here on Earth.

Leave a Comment